State v. Main

*339Roberts, J.

This is an indictment charging the defendants with having conspired to bring about a false, fraudulent, and fictitious return of the votes cast at a primary election. After trial to a jury in the superior court each of the defendants was found guilty. The case is in this court on the defendants’ exceptions to the denial by the trial justice of their motion for a directed verdict and to certain evidentiary rulings made by him.

The indictment charges that on September 17, 1956 a primary election was conducted on behalf of the Republican party at Goff Junior High School in the city of…